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Sending animated GIFs with sendPhoto (Telegram bot) – Telegram API

I’m trying to send an animated GIF with sendPhoto (Telegram’s Bot API) with this request:

https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/sendPhoto?chat_id=<chat_id>&photo=http://i.giphy.com/13IC4LVeP5NGNi.gif

That method works, as in, I get ok:true back, but the image in the chat window is a still snapshot of the moving GIF.

How can I get the animated GIF to show? Is there another method I should use?

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  1. 0

    You should use the sendAnimation method for sending a GIF or H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video without sound.
    Just use the animation parameter for your GIF file.

    sendPhoto is only used for static images.

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  2. 0

    use sendVideo method!

    https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/sendVideo?chat_id=<chat_id>&video=http://i.giphy.com/13IC4LVeP5NGNi.gif

    this will work

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